8:56: Blah blah talking heads most important debate ever. David Gergen sucks. 8:58: CNN’s room of voters sure is white. 9:01: Candy Crowley has selected the voters’ questions, so in large part if this debate is good or shit rests on her. Shocking. I’m sure by now that most of you have seen the rules […]

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FLAPJACKS: Hey, did you ever see Junior? That movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant? ME: No. FLAPJACKS: I didn’t either. Did they ever explain how the hell he was able to get pregnant without a uterus? I mean, I know he took Miracle Drugs which let him get pregnant even though he was a man, […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Fair warning: next week’s column will probably just be “Nothing is on TV that is better than playing XCOM. You should probably play XCOM.”

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Click on thumb to see full Edit: Whoops, that was last week’s page. Fixed! And if you like, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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All right, so.  Problems: 1. I cannot tell if this is ironically suggesting fake nerd girls are a menace to nerd culture or if it is meta-sublimina-ironically mocking nerd culture for believing same.  It should not be so hard for me to figure this out and that makes me very sad. 2. Are the bow […]

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‘Damage Control’ is one of those little, everyday Voight-Kampf tests that you come across in popular culture sometimes. If you sit someone down with a copy of the ‘Damage Control’ mini-series, written by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie with art by the wonderfully talented Ernie Colón, and they do not finish it smiling, then you […]

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8:51: Martha Raddatz is explaining that if you do not turn off your cell phone, you will run the risk of being humiliated forever. 8:56: CNN Talkinhedz ™ are explaining that either this debate is incredibly important or totally meaningless. I should probably switch to Newsworld, but my TV’s reception on CNN is better and […]

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(commentary requested by several people.) So, as we all know, Scott Kurtz believes that thinking that Jack Kirby was screwed by Marvel and doing something about it is “slacktivism” and moral self-aggrandizement. (As Leonard Pierce pointed out, suggesting that people donate to charity the price of an Avengers movie ticket was precisely the opposite of […]

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My weekly TV column is up for Torontoist. (And yes, nerds: Arrow sucks. At least the pilot sucked, and hard. They are promising Deadshot for later in the season so I might watch that episode, but the acting is not very good and without that I’m just not gonna waste my time.)

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Hello. I’m Jock, of Mad Jock’s Lawn Dominator brand fertilizer. Now, you might think that fall is the time where you finally stop shelling out for our product, but I’m here to tell you that this is the most important time of the year to fertilize your lawn. Except maybe for spring. And summer, of […]

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8:56: CNN talking heads all exclaiming how desperately important this debate is and how Romney must shake up the race and blah blah blah. David Gergen, surprisingly, says the most intelligent thing when he says that the most important thing is probably who appears most relaxed and at ease. Because, frankly, that is the most […]

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Chance Obama mentions Romney’s proposed tax cut on rich people more than five times: 1-3 Chance Obama mentions that his own payroll tax cut is about to expire: 7-1 (unless in context of GOP refusing to extend, then 1-1) Chance Obama mentions sequestration: 1-1 Chance Obama mentions cap-and-trade: 22-1 Chance Obama mentions “the Romney/Ryan plan”: […]

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